They “Retired” Coach Woodson Thread

[iu eyedoc]

42 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

We will win 1 or 2 games most of us think we shouldn’t!

This team has won zero games it shouldn't have this year and has lost several it should have won. This was thought to be a talented enough team to contend for the B1G title, so they were expected to win all but 4-6 in conference. They are 4-4 against 8 of the 9 worst B1G teams.

[TheWatShot]

45 minutes ago, HoosierMatty said:

I think it's just a general rule most schools don't like to fire a coach in the middle of the season versus at the end. And generally the optics probably look better. Only in extreme circumstances do they make that move.

 

I think midseason firings may start to happen more often now with the portal being a big factor. Teams that are out of contention and won't be in the tournament want to get a jump start on recruiting portal players. 

 

But we probably won't start seeing that for another month at least. OSU fired Holtmann in mid-February. Don't be surprised if we see a few coaches let go in late February/early March. If we're sub-.500 in the Big Ten by then, maybe we make the move. 

[HoosierMatty]

7 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I think midseason firings may start to happen more often now with the portal being a big factor. Teams that are out of contention and won't be in the tournament want to get a jump start on recruiting portal players. 

 

But we probably won't start seeing that for another month at least. OSU fired Holtmann in mid-February. Don't be surprised if we see a few coaches let go in late February/early March. If we're sub-.500 in the Big Ten by then, maybe we make the move. 

That's a legitimate point. The landscape has changed dramatically. The portal is also the reason you can win Big and quickly now. Unfortunately a 6 million dollar portal team means nothing with a mediocre coach. But this is also IU whose had a dysfunctional administration the past 25 plus years. Let's hope after Woodson is gone we make serious changes.

[Ryno6284]

12 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

This team has won zero games it shouldn't have this year and has lost several it should have won. This was thought to be a talented enough team to contend for the B1G title, so they were expected to win all but 4-6 in conference. They are 4-4 against 8 of the 9 worst B1G teams.

I’m talking maybe at wisky or the Breslin center. Games we wouldn’t expect a good team to win at.

[WeeDerkaNaut]

3 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I’m talking maybe at wisky or the Breslin center. Games we wouldn’t expect a good team to win at.

We're not winning Wisky but Woodson will be drinking whisky after the game lol

[Asha’man]

4 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I’m talking maybe at wisky or the Breslin center. Games we wouldn’t expect a good team to win at.

More like ran off the court imo. Don’t forget Reneau is coming back so more 2 big lineups are coming. This Maryland game is their best chance at a win over the next stretch of games until UCLA. 

[str8baller]

52 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

They also know how pitiful he is at high school recruiting.

They likely are praying he stays. IU’s disaster in recruiting the last twenty years is crazy and helped many a coaches outside Indiana. And Woody is as bad as any of them. 
 

Matta and Beilen specifically have title game appearances off the backs of stud Indiana players. Bennett too.  Izzo, K, and Roy have had good team’s (can’t reminder those specific ones made a FF) with stud Indiana recruits. That’s not even counting the ones who went to instate programs under Painter, Brey, etc.. 

It’s not realistic that IU would’ve got all those guys with a Stevens or somebody similar at the helm, but getting even our fair share would’ve taken some shine off a few resumes.  
 

I’m sure there are a few coaches out there who can see the writing on the wall if IU gets a good coach. Dusty May can probably do the math because I’m sure he has his eye on at least northern Indiana, as UM has successfully recruited there the last 25 years. 

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, Ryno6284 said:

I’m talking maybe at wisky or the Breslin center. Games we wouldn’t expect a good team to win at.

The win at Ohio St wasn’t expected.   People can hate on the coach and team all they want but that was a good win for IU.   I’m guessing most that post in here are done with college basketball and don’t really watch and go by box scores the next day.   Ohio St is a tourney quality team that lost a bunch of close games in conference to teams that are solidly in or right on the bubble.  

[Hoosierfanyuh]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

The win at Ohio St wasn’t expected.   People can hate on the coach and team all they want but that was a good win for IU.   I’m guessing most that post in here are done with college basketball and don’t really watch and go by box scores the next day.   Ohio St is a tourney quality team that lost a bunch of close games in conference to teams that are solidly in or right on the bubble.  

I truly believe we only won because their second leading scorer was out 

[bird4par]

7 minutes ago, HoosierMatty said:

That's a legitimate point. The landscape has changed dramatically. The portal is also the reason you can win Big and quickly now. Unfortunately a 6 million dollar portal team means nothing with a mediocre coach. But this is also IU whose had a dysfunctional administration the past 25 plus years. Let's hope after Woodson is gone we make serious changes.

The administration is fine.  Or so we have been told not to believe everything we read on rumor boards and QUIT blaming the administration on all the failures  

 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I truly believe we only won because their second leading scorer was out 

Probably but it’s still a solid resume win 

[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

The win at Ohio St wasn’t expected.   People can hate on the coach and team all they want but that was a good win for IU.   I’m guessing most that post in here are done with college basketball and don’t really watch and go by box scores the next day.   Ohio St is a tourney quality team that lost a bunch of close games in conference to teams that are solidly in or right on the bubble.  

OSU is a pretty damn good team, with their primary weakness as rebounding and defending the interior. In other words - tailor made for us to exploit with our consistently best player, Oumar Ballo. Then, OSU's best interior player and rebounder (though not a post), Devin Royal, missed the game, which was 'fortunate'.  So IU beat them ... in overtime. 

So while everything needed to break right for IU to win at OSU, it indeed did happen exactly that way. And we got a pretty damn good win.

[IUFAN1976]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

It could be but I think most coaches think they would be much better if they had this roster. I'm guessing most coaches think we are underachieving just like we do as fans. 

By the display at NW, even opposing fans know we are underachieving!

[Hoosierfan2017]

9 minutes ago, bird4par said:

The administration is fine.  Or so we have been told not to believe everything we read on rumor boards and QUIT blaming the administration on all the failures  

 

Either we have an incompetent administration or a completely neutered one. Either way we’re in trouble. 

[iu eyedoc]

13 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I’m talking maybe at wisky or the Breslin center. Games we wouldn’t expect a good team to win at.

Bob Knight was coaching IU the last time they won in Madison and MSU seems like the cream of the B1G crop at the moment, so I wouldn't be holding my breath.

[go iu bb]

10 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

By the display at NW, even opposing fans know we are underachieving!

Yeah, it's ridiculous to think that with all the negative pub Woodson has been getting that coaches wouldn't know why he was fired if they fired him mid-season. Everyone who pays even a little bit of attention to college basketball knows. If they didn't know, a quick google would make it obvious.

[AZ Hoosier]

10 hours ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

One of these days I'm going to go through this whole thread and count the different ways we can say Woodson sucks and why he needs fired!
With that said FIRE WOODSON!!!!

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Well, there are only about 34K posts at this point...

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

As long as he’s done at the end of the season, I’d rather IU not fire him mid season. He deserves all these boos he has coming his way. 

I'd love (and welcome) an announcement even if we let him continue going through the motions until March.

[AZ Hoosier]

46 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

OSU is a pretty damn good team, with their primary weakness as rebounding and defending the interior. In other words - tailor made for us to exploit with our consistently best player, Oumar Ballo. Then, OSU's best interior player and rebounder (though not a post), Devin Royal, missed the game, which was 'fortunate'.  So IU beat them ... in overtime. 

So while everything needed to break right for IU to win at OSU, it indeed did happen exactly that way. And we got a pretty damn good win.

Don't forget that Woodson and co actually coached the team in that game, too. I think even Sleepy Armond was alert and engaged.

[Trish]

The Tank Train is asking for another L tomorrow vs Maryland. We need the students chanting "Fire Mike Woodson", we need loud boo's from the general folks there, we need a sloppy performance, we need Twitter to start rioting!

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